Langham Hall is pleased to bring you the latest episode of First Close, where Tom Pinnell, Head of Commercial, Europe, sits down with emerging private equity managers and the people who work alongside them for an honest look at what it takes to build a private equity firm from scratch.
This episode, Tom is joined by Regina Green, Managing Director at Catalyze. Regina spent seventeen years at Goldman Sachs, including leading Launch With GS, a billion-dollar strategy backing underrepresented founders and fund managers across roughly sixty investments. In 2024, she turned her focus to the earliest, most overlooked stage of fund building: the working capital gap facing emerging managers. At Catalyze, the GP Runway Fund provides non-dilutive loans directly to management companies, helping emerging GPs cover the costs of building an institutional-grade firm before they have closed a fund.
They discuss:
- How managers can really stand out when speaking to LPs
- Why funding underrepresented managers leads to better outcomes for everyone
- The overlooked areas where managers can fail LP due diligence
- What success looks like for Catalyze
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and all major platforms.
